About
Twentysomething years ago I somewhat miraculously found myself with a degree in Information Technology. Our course leader bade us an enthusiastic farewell, telling us that we were now in the top 3% of Britain’s IT elite. The world was ours for the taking, the future ours for the shaping…
Fast forward to the present day: I’m still working in the British IT industry (the bit that still hasn’t been outsourced to India), still cutting code (I never did have the right attitude to climb the ladder into Spreadsheetland management), and still wondering why the hell I didn’t pursue that early desire to be a train driver.
Weekly posts from the code face, along with occasional tWitter-style mini-rants when things get too much to bottle up. Move over, Dilbert, this is what it’s *really* like…

